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Rent Twelve Years a Slave
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Apr 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage
Retail Price: $9.95
Pages: 352
Synopsis
Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. 'A moving, vital testament to one of slavery's 'many thousand gone' who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation.' — Saturday Review. 7 illustrations. Index.